We can deal with rockets and dreams, but reality, what does it mean?
Tag: 1970s albums
The B-52’s – The B-52’s: #382 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It wasn’t a rock – it was rock lobster.
David Bowie – Hunky Dory: #386 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Oh man, wonder if he’ll ever know he’s in the best selling show. Is there life on Mars?
George Harrison – All Things Must Pass: #396 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Tell me what is my life without your love, tell me who I am without you by my side.
Electric Light Orchestra – Discovery: #401 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’ll tell you once more before I get off the floor: don’t bring me down.
Diana Ross & The Supremes – Anthology: #406 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Stop! In the name of love, before you break my heart.
Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings and Food: #412 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Take me to the river, drop me in the water.
KISS – Dressed to Kill: #415 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day.
Elvis Costello – Armed Forces: #428 of best 1,000 albums ever!
What’s so funny ’bout peace, love and understanding?
Iggy Pop – Lust For Life: #429 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I am a passenger, and I ride and I ride.
Foreigner – Double Vision: #438 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Feeling down and dirty, feeling kinda mean, I’ve been from one to another extreme.
New York Dolls – New York Dolls: #453 of best 1,000 albums ever!
All about that personality crisis, you got it while it was hot. But now frustration and heartache is what you got.
Bob Dylan – Desire: #462 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Here comes the story of the Hurricane, the man the authorities came to blame.
The Cars – The Cars: #464 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Let the good times roll, let them knock you around.
Grateful Dead – American Beauty: #468 of best 1,000 albums ever!
What a long strange trip it’s been.
The Knack – Get The Knack: #472 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Ooh, my little pretty one, my pretty one, when you gonna give me some time, Sharona?
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here: #477 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Midnight Oil – Midnight Oil: #483 of best 1,000 albums ever!
There’s a bubble a bouncing, and it’s bouncing my way. There’s two sticks in the powderworks, I think it’s gonna blow today.
Pink Floyd – The Wall: #499 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Crazy, toys in the attic, truly gone fishing. They must have taken my marbles away!
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cosmo’s Factory: #514 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Seven thirty seven coming out of the sky – won’t you take me down to Memphis on a midnight ride. I want to move, playing in a traveling band.
Foghat – Fool for the City: #523 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m in the mood, the rhythm is right. Move to the music, we can roll all night.
The Doors – An American Prayer: #527 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The music was new, black polished chrome, and came over the summer like liquid night.
The Damned – Damned Damned Damned: #536 of best 1,000 albums ever!
No crime if there ain’t no law, no cops left to mess you around, no more dreams of mystery chords, no more sight to bring you down.
Aerosmith – Toys in the Attic: #538 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You talk about things that nobody cares, wearing out things that nobody wears. You’re calling my name but I gotta make clear, I can’t say baby where I’ll be in a year.
Wings – Band on the Run: #543 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Well, the night was falling as the desert world began to settle down. In the town they’re searching for us everywhere but we never will be found.
Patti Smith – Easter: #547 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Take me now baby here as I am. Pull me close, try and understand. Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe. Love is a banquet on which we feed.
Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Bachman-Turner Overdrive II: #556 of best 1,000 albums ever!
And would you cry if I told you that I lied? And would you say goodbye, would you let it ride?
Blondie – Parallel Lines: #559 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Once I had a love and it was a gas, soon turned out had a heart of glass. Seemed like the right thing, only to find mucho mistrust, love’s gone behind.
Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life: #562 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand, with an equal opportunity for all to sing, dance, and clap their hands.
The Jackson 5 – ABC: #564 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Stop, the love you save may be your own! Darling, take it slow or someday you’ll be all alone.
David Bowie – Aladdin Sane: #574 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’ve come on a few years from my Hollywood highs, the best of the last, the cleanest star they ever had.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Deja Vu: #591 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion-year-old carbon, and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.
The Romantics – The Romantics: #594 of best 1,000 albums ever!
What I like about you, you hold me tight. Tell me I’m the only one wanna come over tonight, yeah.
Neil Young – Harvest: #606 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I want to live, I want to give. I’ve been a miner for a heart of gold.
X-Ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescents: #613 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s dark and eerie and it’s really late, come on kids don’t hesitate.
Blondie – Blondie: #626 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Oh, you know her, would you look at that hair.
Elvis Presley – The Sun Sessions: #628 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Well, I heard the news, there’s good rockin’ tonight.
Elvis Costello – My Aim Is True: #637 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m not gonna get too sentimental like those other sticky valentines.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Rust Never Sleeps: #644 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hey hey, my my. Rock and roll can never die.
John Lennon – Plastic Ono Band: #647 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I heard something about my ma and my pa. They didn’t want me so they made me a star.
The Police – Outlandos D’Amour: #653 of best 1,000 albums ever!
So many times I used to give a sign. Got this feeling, gonna lose my mind.
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours: #657 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow.
The Runaways – The Runaways: #658 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Down the streets I’m the girl next door. I’m the fox you’ve been waiting for.
UFO – Phenomenon: #663 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Livin’, lovin’ on the run, so far away from you.
Boston – Boston: #675 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I lost myself in a familiar song. I closed my eyes and I slipped away.
SIMON & GARFUNKEL – BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER: #676 OF BEST 1,000 ALBUMS EVER!
You’re breaking my heart. You’re shaking my confidence daily.
Patti Smith – Horses: #681 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Sopra i cieli, ancor più su. Dolci canti di angeli.
The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers: #690 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Yeah, when you call my name I salivate like a Pavlov dog.
John Williams – Star Wars: A New Hope (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): #693 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It opens the floodgate of memories from my Star Wars-obsessed childhood, and that’s just for starters.
Devo – Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!: #704 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Q: Should you listen to this album? A: Uh, that’d be a big time yes.
The Who – Who’s Next: #705 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Take a bow for the new revolution.
T. Rex – Electric Warrior: #709 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Bang a gong. Get it on.
Linda Ronstadt – Heart Like A Wheel: #712 of best 1,000 albums ever!
One would be well advised to express the opposite of “you’re no good” with regard to this album. Which is to say… it’s good.
The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers: #727 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m in love with rock and roll and I’ll be out all night.
Ramones – Road to Ruin: #738 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A thoroughly non-sedating blast of old school punk rock.
Sly & The Family Stone – Greatest Hits: #744 of best 1,000 albums ever!
There are very few bands that have better expressed the pure joy, the pure jubilation of music.
Jethro Tull – Aqualung: #754 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Without pretension, this album deserves best 1,000 albums ever list retention.
Black Sabbath – Master of Reality: #767 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Heavy metal is bestowed upon We Mere Mortals. And it is good.
Dolly Parton – Coat of Many Colors: #784 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This coat expertly spans country and pop.
Buddy Holly – 20 Golden Greats: Buddy Holly Lives: #791 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Not fade away, indeed. That says it all for one of the early rock n’ roll greats.
Curtis Mayfield – Curtis: #795 of best 1,000 albums ever!
If there is a hell below, at least we’ve got Curtis in the meanwhile in the here and now.
Kraftwerk – The Man-Machine: #805 of best 1,000 albums ever!
These dudes out of Germany ain’t messing around with normal sounds. Oh no.
Funkadelic – Maggot Brain: #813 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A work of psychedelicized funk/soul/rock bizarro-genius that you may choose to hit and/or quit.
Generation X – Generation X: #821 of best 1,000 albums ever!
One hundred wild youth punks agree: this one is ready steady go.
Donna Summer – Bad Girls: #827 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Why, it’s hot stuff.
The Doors – Other Voices: #833 of best 1,000 albums ever!
“Ray, Robbie, and John did Doors stuff post-Jim?” Yep, and this one’s really good!
Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure: #836 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Shmaltzy, glammy, proto-punk? Yeah, this is one unique album.
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Catch A Fire: #844 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Whether it’s high tide or low ebb, this is classic reggae.
Gang of Four – Entertainment!: #847 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Are you not entertained? Well, you will be by this classic post-punk album, yes, thanks for asking.
Wire – Pink Flag: #851 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Wildly inventive and intriguing punk rock from the UK circa 1977.
The Saints – (I’m) Stranded: #854 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Legit punk rock circa 1977 from Down Under.
Television – Marquee Moon: #856 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Post-punk, new wave, intellectual guitar rock? Any which way, it’s all good.
Steve Miller Band – Fly Like An Eagle: #857 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Wherein I find my appetite for this slice of space blues.
Grateful Dead – Workingman’s Dead: #869 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t call this a jam band… album.
Neil Young – On the Beach: #879 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Contemplative and quiet at times, bluesy and rocked up at others, and through and through a great Neil Young album.
Mott the Hoople – All the Young Dudes: #905 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Rock ‘n roll meets proto-punk meets David Bowie-inspired early ‘70s glam rock. And chocolate and peanut butter (somehow?).
Death – …For the Whole World to See: #931 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A great big blast of proto-punk angst and passion and loud crashing guitars.
The Slits – Cut: #944 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s out there and it’s freaky and it’s punk and it rocks and it all works marvelously well.
Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath: #949 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The definition of heavy metal.
Stiff Little Fingers – Inflammable Material: #952 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Old school punk that’s completely pleasing and satisfying to the ear.
Madness – One Step Beyond…: #957 of best 1,000 albums ever!
From ska to punk to new wave to pop, all performed with the extreme exuberance and confidence of youth and with tongues firmly planted in cheeks… I guess you can only describe it as Madness.
Sham 69 – Angels With Dirty Faces: #970 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A delirious blast of UK punk.
Edwin Starr – War & Peace: #979 of best 1,000 albums ever!
“War” first and foremost, but make peace with the fact there’s also a lot of other great songs going down here.
Burning Spear: Marcus Garvey: #983 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Head bobbing roots reggae with intense, consciousness-raising lyrics.
The Stranglers – Rattus Norvegicus: #994 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Conjures the feeling of being inside a gritty, indie British gangster flick and/or hanging out in a pub on a dreary English afternoon.